The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1903, Page 2

Lo SANIT Dr- Crichton Will Introduce an Ordinance in the City Council Tonight Aiming}: at More Stringent Pnn- ishment for Milk Pois- hjection in the cour matter is propert it ma The city will begin legista-|ser tion tonight against the form-jif aldehyde evil. Dr. J. E. Crich-} brought befo tae, chairman of the health and t son sanitation comnarttes will im nance providing for severe —~—inilk-poisoners, and throu this ordinance and its strict en-jand th ican pot 2 0 health ; I think we forcement in the hoped to strengthe laws and in some the spre death =m: ny th Seattle. It is practicali that thi; ordinance will be pass-| 1 sidents of a certainty a with the y * opposition lit will have my strong support This ordinance is the initial|in its plan, and that I shall ex ru-lert all my energies to the fur ing at- palbaswinees Samad ga oneal cians ot the city, in co-opera-/tainly is of great moment to th tion with the board « jpubl and the plan against the imp and.prompt corr tions that undo tt Is." throughout Seattle Tt ‘ he The Star has suggested ¢ D members of the board of health | Sa former &@ remedy for the « of | president of the board of healtt the evil in the estai a city laboratory equipped with | salvation for Seuttie Modern scientfic apparatus and merick, instruments for the testing of here is no doubt all kinds of foods, an rin at there has been an a fended by scientific chemists|ing number of fatalit Whose duty it would be tolimpr nd adulterate promptly test all samples) Seat Boceaht. to the laboratory by|weeks I have had t residents of the city jwhich all my cation This plan has met with the fessional skill were requ instant approval of the board| prevent death, on account of of health, and has the endorse-| preservatives in milk By ment of the prominent physi-|watching night and day we cians of the city. Dr. J. E.|were able to save the lives of Crichton, member of the city}these three patients, t ad council, and chairman of thejnot my previous experience health and sanitation commit | taught me to watch for the in- tee for that body, is enthusiass| vidious effects of poisoned milk himself as strongly in favor of|the trouble was. The est urging the plan without delay.|lishment of a city labora “The matter will have to be} would compel! the food-adulter taken up by the health commit-jators to desist from their crim tee and reported to the councif|inal practices, and only a phy © order of things,"|sician may realize of what im . Crichton, this morn-| portance this would be to the ing, “but I think I am safe in general health of Seattle. For saying that there will not be the past four years we have had READ THIS LIST THEY ALL FAVOR PURE MILK AND PUNISHMENT OF FORMALDEHYDE FIENDS DR. G. L. TANZER, Analytical Expert for City Dr. J. P. Sweeney, Pres. King Co. Med. Soc. Dr. Frantz H. Coe, a leading local physician Dr. C. E. Hoye, Coroner of King County Judge T. H. Cann, Justice of the Peace dudge R. R, George, Police Judge Or. J. E. Crichton, Member of City Couneit and Chairman health and Sanitation Committee! QUEEN ANNE FLOUR MMOND MILLING OCO., Starnes Ss SE A CORONER HOVE SAYS: ii « NAVIGATION r ne body. I can] ed by the city council without | assure The Star, however, that! of “A city laboratory is the oniy| tic on this point, and expresses}! should not have known what], The above picture represents the ¢ tion and rapid transit contemplated by busin e with milk adulterat ey are all the time ing more cunnis con y their sling s in the only nutrition which may be allowed infant and, in a great many cases, adult invalids T am glad to! milk has see that The Star has taken! this fight up. It has roused the alarm of the public, and fright ened the dairymen, and it will give an impetus to the meas ures of reform that the board of health is so mus to have taken “With the attention of the), public focused upon the subject] and the people enligt to its importance, we an be ‘ assured of more consideration |, from the officials with whom|gans and a legislation rests. The Star has agitated the matter and han died it with such. intelligence that the people understand how great the import is, and it will help legislation, besides ser ing aneffective warning against the danger “The example of the federal government in taking its stan at believe its « against preservatives in the! ty government rations ought to point the ne ity of p tive measures for the weak lit whose lives are at the mercy of the formaldehyde poisoner 2) {dO ae Moved to 1406 ad Ave Shr > COUNCIL WILL BE ASKED TO LEGISLATE AGAINST — MILK POISONERS AND ESTABLISH CITY LABORATORY Physicians Endorse Star's avenue, north of Pike strect, and some of the thorou prin- hyde dairyman who b in theJescape severe pena strong: |f% lishment | PM Sagi tion of the adulters of formal I Was cdll-| Neve, but if any dairyman who|that the German army had en hed with- of a physi- lyno ed as born un- with strong or sigue nptom Yet it had wasted away and died dairy macientiously s pre ed with what is known formaldehy 4¢ se pare | pi ‘ rect.” ous effects of the drug a con infants and frail ealeres en-}a sho formalde-|came before Judge Geor RATTLE 4 NEF FIRST AVENUE Ee orien _ For mam. (004 fare nes tolwho, from the prep of the ev defendant Cano ‘ The defendant was the par-|prietor of the Royal Dairy George, |appealed to the superior ¢ ard th 1 secured trial by jury Fashion grill propriet: ticularly,” said Judge or I have not’ yet cin posse-|in defen an € « that they w of the for ed its use for rations. nse was not a d an be proven to have admin-| «in the milk! I shall take pleasure in gi lieve, allows the maximum pen-| of the formaldeh alty to be imprisonment for 8o|the man. Asam idays and a fine of $100. ndorsement by th case is proven in my Itlagainst. a dairyman charged| government, occasioned stich a ately adulterating| scandal that the endorsement I shall give him both the|had to be revoked. Subsequent } $100 fine and the So days in|imvestigations have demon jail Strated its deadly effects as ed-] The dire effects of formalde- |" the shadow of a doubt Je.|hyde are becoming widely sed|known, and this fact is also ¢ * WANAMAKER NOT. GUILTY isoning.| significance to the formalde-| ary San-|hy fiend, for, by reason of ign: of the poison-| & } | | REAVER victed dairyman was acquitte time ago. The ca the libel BUSINESS | COLLEGE ou WILL TRY iT AGAIN the _The Rochester. The Rochester. _The Rochester. First Time lerance i the i senten¢ tjed him to the maximum fine ten | Idehyde ted milk,| preservative, arguing it harm a Raincoat you'll be sorry for | ' without their knowledge, I be-|less, and stated as an authority yourself; but that won't pre- vent you from getting wet or damaging a good Suit or Over- | nse of he sells, comes before me for|the criminal, but a defense of trial, let ‘hn rest assured that|the poison he used, The state ing} ment anent the German army should |him the utmost penalty the law] was not disputed, a coat is before it rains, not afte The kind to buy is a Genuine Cravenette; the place to buy it d the jury, permits The state law, I be-| convinced of the harmlessness de, acquitted of fact, he use of the drug, after its} German | dia Upto $30.00 Our $2.50 Hat is as good as advertised $3.00 Hat in Fred’k F. Adams 719 Second Avenue Hinkley Blook Suggestion for the Es- tablishment of a City Laboratory to Test All Impure Foods and Wat- CESERERATCTERSTNETEES CESSES LIVES IN MOUNTAIN, BATTLE "BELIEVE HER LOST hat the Norwegian bark whiett left Port Gamble 169 ponatly Shortly afte f the Bound " | stanchion and « portion of a ship's = _ — |boat bearing the 1 Cathert TALE OF MISSING CIPHER |were picked up on the Vancouver item about the organization | « Rince t { the Alesha, Cab, Saturdays | safety hay wie through a type- | though th t only ubacrip- | kas hereas over 300 had | Pight with | fretgit whe out in the rain without The time to buy a Rain Some very good ones | Men's and adel Dutfitter {F YOU WOULD AVOIDDISAPPOINTMENT i your Glasses, we Invite you te eal! om Se Remember that te the only Up-to-date, eaclusive ment im the state '* eucceed beenus there nim out methot of Mt! VERSOLE OPYIOAL OOMPANY ous New York block Phome James 190i,